spam filtering ceased

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Hi,

FWIW, when I cold-install Solaris 9 or 10 onto a system, I don't
install either the SUNW perl packages, the SUNW sendmail package,
or some other unwanted packages (like apache).  You don't need 
them for the OS to work properly, and they are out-of-date relative 
to the public-domain releases anyway.  Then I install the
public-domain versions.

Come on, be brave.  Do a "cp /dcs/bin/perl /dcs/bin/perl.orig" to
CYA before replacing with a symlink.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Dan Stromberg wrote:

> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:08:59 -0700
> From: Dan Stromberg <strombrg at DCS.NAC.UCI.EDU>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: spam filtering ceased
> 
> On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 11:20 +0100, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> By default, MailScanner will always use /usr/bin/perl. But anything that
>> looks for perl in your path may well pick up /dcs/bin/perl. Having these
>> 2 different is very dangerous and the cause of a whole host of problems.
>> Consider replacing /usr/bin/perl with a link to /dcs/bin/perl. And who
>> put perl in /bin? It doesn't belong there.
>
> Hi Julian.
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>
> I'm reluctant to replace /usr/bin/perl with a symlink to /dcs/bin/perl,
> because /usr/bin/perl is the Sun version, and I'm concerned that there
> might be a perl script that ships with the OS that isn't compatibile
> with /dcs/bin/perl.
>
> /bin and /usr/bin are the same directory usually on most Sun's.
>
> Would it be sufficient to make sure the $PATH as known by MailScanner
> does not include /dcs/bin/perl?
>
> Thanks!
>
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